- Date
- May 21, 1988, 10:30 local (17:30 UTC)
- Place
- Carson City, NV
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N10317Brown 1911 Bellanca
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 13, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 40821
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Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
The purpose of the flight was to test a new type of propeller which had just been installed on the aircraft. The pilot noticed prior to rotation an increase in the RPM. At rotation the nose up pitch was excessive. The pilot lowered the nose of the aircraft to avoid a stall and struck the overrun at the end of the runway. The pilot/aircraft manufacturer stated that he did not specify the proper pitch of the propeller to the propeller manufacturer.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N10317
- Reported as
- Brown 1911 Bellanca (1911 BELLA)
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 26
- Airframe hours
- 26
- Engine
- Continental O-173-3, 65 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Stanley H. Brown
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 2, 1987 · 26 hours before
- Departed
- 004 · Carson City, NV
- Airport
- 004 · Carson City, runway 27, 5,900 × 75 ft, asphalt
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 63
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea, Multi-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Center
- Flight hours
- 2,850 total · 20 in this make and model · 2,850 as pilot in command · 15 in the last 90 days · 10 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 270° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 81 °F